Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
by quickthrower2 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:56PM
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My recent submission of HNBadges was made like this. It's just 3 files (html, css, JS) which I hosted for free on Netlify, but could have been hosted on a setup like OP. I used other services for XHR requests. I imagine it got a tonne of traffic from being on the first page, but I wasn't taking metrics.
Another example of clever use of resources is the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ website. Using a bloom filter (I think) to turn what could have been a back-end lookup into a "front end lookup" by requesting a small file from the server based on the password hash.
The only issue I have with the OP is his assumption that you'd get a nice smooth 60 request/second throughout the day! Most likely will be lumpy, and in the top of the lumpy periods (where most of your visitors visit) performance will be bad.
Another example of clever use of resources is the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ website. Using a bloom filter (I think) to turn what could have been a back-end lookup into a "front end lookup" by requesting a small file from the server based on the password hash.
The only issue I have with the OP is his assumption that you'd get a nice smooth 60 request/second throughout the day! Most likely will be lumpy, and in the top of the lumpy periods (where most of your visitors visit) performance will be bad.